Temon (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Temmann; Temmon; The Sun

In the civil parish of Upper Denton.
In the historic county of Cumberland.
Modern Authority of Cumbria.
1974 county of Cumbria.
Medieval County of Cumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NY61686381
Latitude 54.96741° Longitude -2.60010°

Temon has been described as a certain Bastle.

There are major building remains.

This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law*.

Description

Farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding. Outbuilding is a late C16 bastle house; farmhouse is late C17. Bastle house has thick walls of large squared and coursed calciferous sandstone (probably partly from the Roman Wall) with red sandstone dressings; corrugated asbestos roof. Two storeys, three bays. Ground floor plank door and window have plain C19 surrounds. Round arched cart passage to right, is probably C18. Upper floor loft entrance is C19; three original windows with chamfered surrounds (iron grille recently removed). Rear wall has a filled later entrance to ground floor; two original windows above have chamfered surrounds and 3rd later window over archway left has iron bars. Stone water spout to left of central window and probable gun loop to right. Interior has upper floor fireplace. (Listed Building Report)

The bastle is now a barn. At some time it was used as a carters' inn called 'The Sun'. (PastScape–ref. Perriam and Robinson)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1087520
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 14108.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 321.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Old Cumbria Gazetteer
  Abaroth's World
Books
- Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 173 (plan)
  Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 103 (slight)
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 96
  Hugill, Robert, 1977, Castles and Peles of Cumberland and Westmorland (Newcastle; Frank Graham) p. 82
  Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London: HMSO) p. 79 no. 18 (plan)
  Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1967, Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth) p. 121
  Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 13) p. 409
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Scott, W., 1817, The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Appendix III p. lxxix online copy
  Graham, T. H. B. (ed.), 1934, The barony of Gilsland. Lord William Howard's survey, taken in 1603 (Feild-Booke yt explaines all the Map Booke for Gilsland taken in 1603) (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 16) (not in the Field Book, but shown on the map)

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